Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Fone Coulibaly ties up tomato plants in one of Amadou Sidibe's greenhouses in Katibougou, Mali, February 12, 2020. Picture taken February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Annie Risemberg

Key strategies to accelerate Africa’s post-COVID recovery

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

A woman is seen wearing a face mask pushes her bicycle through a water-logged road during a heavy rain in Bangkok on September 19, 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Vachira Vachira/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Financial risk assessment and management in times of compounding climate and pandemic shocks

Irene Monasterolo, Nepomuk Dunz, Andrea Mazzocchetti, and Arthur H. Essenfelder

Friday, October 22, 2021

SDRs for COVID-19 relief: The good, the challenging, and the uncertain

Ali Zafar, Jan Muench, and Aloysius Uche Ordu

Thursday, October 21, 2021

U.S. currency peeking out from behind two surgical masks

Navigating the debt legacy of the pandemic

M. Ayhan Kose, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

EU flags waving in front of European Parliament building. Brussels, Belgium

A conversation about economics and geopolitics with Paolo Gentiloni

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Friday, October 15, 2021

Young people working in coffee shop with surgical masks on.

Has COVID disrupted the postsecondary pipeline?

Lauren Bauer, Veronica Clevenstine, Wendy Edelberg, Elisabeth Raczek, and Winnie Yee

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Aug 27, 2021; Detroit, Michigan, USA; The downtown Detroit skyline is seen from the exterior of Ford Field before a pre-season game between the Detroit Lions and Indianapolis Colts. Mandatory Credit: David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports

Local and national leaders must organize themselves better to build back better

Alan Berube and Mary Jean Ryan

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past Souvenir shops.Poland is now passing for the second wave of Coronavirus and life continues under restrictive measures such as the closure of stores inside shopping malls, gatherings with a maximum of 5 people, bars and restaurants operating on a take away. Poland has registered more than one million COVID-19 infections and the death toll above 25000. (Photo by Omar Marques / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How COVID-19 policy responses differed in Central Europe

Leonardo Iacovone, Natasha Kapil, Lukasz Marek Marc, Giovanna Marcolongo, Ilias Skamnelos, and Gallina A. Vincelette

Monday, October 11, 2021

People wait to receive a dose of COVAXIN coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech, during a vaccination drive organised by SEEDS, an NGO which normally specialise in providing relief after floods and other natural disasters, at an under-construction flyover in New Delhi, India, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

The risks of an uneven economic recovery in an unequal world

Ambar Narayan, Alexandru Cojocaru, Miriam Muller, and David Newhouse

Monday, September 27, 2021

A Proterra Catalyst BE35 electric bus and CNG (compressed natural gas) buses are seen at an L.A. City Transportation Department (LADOT) DASH transit bus maintenance facility in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 21, 2021. REUTERS/Bing Guan

Five ways regional leaders can prepare future infrastructure workers now

Thursday, September 16, 2021